not for use, or useful as gifts rather than valuable

as possessiors—are r

at the bead of its class ; surpassing even the Keepsake. which is now left without a rival. The increased size and price of the new ones has not been in all cases attended with an improvement of the quality of

When a vertical section is made in the tooth, it is found to contain a cavity the art or the interest of the subjects. The Tourist Annuals maintain them according to their species, we take first those of the newest class and the largest size. Of these we have three varieties; one of them

work of tasteful device, are engraved by the process of COLLAS, now

too well known to need either praise or description : every portrait appears like a tablet in bas-relief. The effect of the plates is the more striking from the e view it gives us of the persons portrayed. In them. Lamb's quaint face and high forehead tell well in the medallion, down by friction, and is less liable to accidental fracture. and his humorous expression is vividly delineated : Southey's promi. In this manner an instrument is constructed possessing the requisite hardness,

nen features challenge a profile view ; which, however, is not the one durability, and insensibility ; yet organized, alive—as truly an integrant portion of the living system as the eye or the heart. best suited to the generality of heads. We discern the characteristics of Na less (welt; indicated in fixing than in constructing the instrument. It is Coleridge in the model from ARNALD'S bust; though the form of his

held in its situation not by one expedient, but by many. features was lost sight of in the life, in the mass of fat and the lustre 1. All along the margin of both jaws is placed a bony arch, pierced with of his large blue eyes. The profile of Shelley, taken from Mrs.

holes, which eonstitute the sockets, called alveoli, for the teeth. Each socket or LEIGH HUNT'S bust, does not convey the spiritual look of the original : alveolus is distinct, there being one alveolus for each tooth. The adaptation of indeed, where expression has so large a share in producing physiogno- the root to the alveolus is so exact, and the adhesion so close, that each root is mical character, a view of the form of one-half of the face only. con- fixed in its alveolus just as a nail is fixed when driven into a board. veys but an imperfect idea of the individual. IVION and WEEKES are The plates are accompanied by slight but lively memoirs, by HENRY

:;. Adherent by one edge to the bony nick of the jaw, and by the other to Csiootxv ; who, as the biographer of Mrs. Hemans, places her at the the neck of the tooth, is a peculiar substance, dense, firm, membranous, called the head of the brilliant band. There is more of compliment than eras gum, le-s hard than cartilage, hut much harder that, skin or common mem. tieism in the sketches of the literary career of each author ; but brane; shrouding with blood-yessels, yet but little sensible; constructed for they are characterized by taste as well as friendly feeling: nor is the express purpose of assisting to fix the teeth in their situation. the latitude of eulogy permitted to contemporary biography exceeded,—

4. The dense and firm membrane covering the bony arch of the jaw is conti. though, as Mr. CHORLEY carefully avoids topics unfavourable to the need into each alveolus which it lines from the bottom of the alveolus this subjects of the biographies, it would have been in better keeping had membrane is reflected over the root of the tooth, which it completely invests as

he steered clear of reflections on their critics and readers.

bane, like a tense and strong band, powerfully assists in fixing the tooth. The volume is superbly got up : the embossed cover, with its hand.

like so many strings, assist in tying it down : hence, when in the progress of Finden's Tableaux would seem to be designed for the express purpose age all the other fastenings are removed, these strings hold the teeth so firmly of affording an elegant amusement for aristocratic Christmas parties to the bottom of the socket, that their removal always requires considerable to realize them with living persons ; for certainly, the costumes, fea-

force. tures, and attitudes, partake more of the fashionable air of the groups But a dense substance like enamel acting with force against so hard a sub- stance as bone, would produce a jar which, propagated along the bones of the at a fancy dress ball, than of the national character of the people indi.

That such is the design of Mr. PERKING, whose ideas Messrs.

cated.

tually interfere with the comfort of eating. UWINS, STEPHANOFF, and BaowNE embody in their pictures we can

Tbis evil is guarded against, only guess ; but they have succeeded very well in attracting the eye by

1. By the structure of the alveoli, which are composed not of dense and corn. a picturesque flutter of draperies—introducing the scenery and incl. pact, but of loose and spongy bone. This cancellated arrangement of the osseous dents as mere accessories to a drawing-room display—without moving Shies is admirably adapted for absorbing vibrations and preventing their props- our sympathies by the distresses of the heroes and heroines more than 2. By the membrane which lines the socket. Miss MITFORD, as editress of ;the volume, has, with her coadjutors, 3. By the membrane which covers the rout of the tooth; and, woven bright webs of fancy, of the delicate tissue proper to aimed' the alveoli, absorb vibrations, and counteract the communication of a shock to Flowers of Loveliness is the last of the trio ; and in this the artiste the bones of the face and head when the teeth act forcibly on hard materials : appear to have borne in mind the demand we made last year for a little so many and such nice adjusttnents go to secure enjoyment, nay, to prevent ex- ugliness, by way of varying the monotonous "waste of beauty" spread pain, in the simple operation of bringing the teeth into contact in the out in the pictured leaves of this and other magazines of feminine

act of eating. charms. The infusion of deformity, though slight, would be welcome,

were it the harbinger of reality : but the persons are still as far removed FINE ARTS, from human character as ever; and therefore we beg to recall our THE Queen has given a fresh proof of her discrimination in the be. petition, and shall in future be content with the most perfectioned stows' of honours in the arts, by appointing Mr. VALENTINE BARTHO- mortality that the pictorial creators of these nonentities can furnish. LomEw flower-painter to her Majesty. This artist is unquestionably the UWINS, Miss FANNY CORDAVX, MEADOWS, and other artists skilled in best painter of flowers in water colours that the English school pos- the millinerrof the easel, have dressed up various groups of lay-figures, sesses : his works are distinguished by those essential attributes of with appropriate scenic backgrounds and accessories, and scattered nature so rarely seen in pictures, freshness of bloom and characteristic flowers about them to express the sentiment of the subject : with what texture ; and with accuracy of imitation he combines vivid colouring success they have accomplished this, we leave those whose perceptions and pictorial effect. are more acute than ours to decide. L. E. L. is the minstrel who strikes the chords responsive to the mute voices of the flowers : but LANCE has this year gained the prize of 50/. at Liverpool, by his pic- her strains, so sadly sweet, are inspired by deeper feelings than any de. tore of the two Monks, first exhibited at the Itoyal.Academy this year. picted here. We look in vain in Mrs. SEYFFARTH'S heroine for the Mr. HAYDON reminds us that LANCE was his pupil ; and that another Pathos of" The Canterbury Bell."